[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-happy-birthday-paul-gravett":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paulgravett-1-5cb0a754e3.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nPaul's birthday was Wednesday, but we celebrated last night at the Tooting Tram & Social and it was great to see him and some of the London comics gang. Have a look at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.paulgravett.com\">Paul's website\u003C/a> if you want to learn about comics; he has a tremendous archive of articles and reviews, and his website guy, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.readyourselfraw.com\">Tim Webber\u003C/a>, regularly posts news about UK comics-related events. \\r\n\\r\nPaul's been a huge help to me with getting into comics. I somehow found him through a yahoo group and showed up a pub, not having a clue about him or anyone else there, but desperately wanting to get my head around this whole comics thing. Over the next few months, Paul answered a lot of my very basic questions and eventually pointed me toward David Fickling, where I got involved with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">the DFC\u003C/a> and also got a picture book contract. So I owe my current working status to Paul, not to mention meeting so many lovely people in the London comics world ... thanks, man!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paul1-df9f94219b.jpg\"> \\r\n\u003Ci>With \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Phoenix\">Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/a> and Vicki Hine.\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003C!--more More pics under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paul3-79229c4f84.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paul2-511e935f6f.jpg\"> \\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.comixinflux.com\">Stephen Betts\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.readyourselfraw.com\">Tim Webber\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.rianhughes.com\">Rian Hughes\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/147_surviving/147_surviving.htm\">David Enker\u003C/a>.\\r\nCanadian \u003Ca href=\"http://www.contrabandcomic.com\">TJ Beje\u003C/a> (in the blue shirt), Dutchman David and Ellen\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paul4-915abead0b.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paul5-34f99aa29b.jpg\"> \\r\nPaul, Woodrow, Vicki and her husband \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hine\">David Hine\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paul6-57bbc377ba.jpg\">\\r\nAnd the shoes I went on about so much in the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/142587.html\">last post\u003C/a>, very tall and tippy\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\\r\nDon't miss a \u003Ca href=\"http://derbyartist.livejournal.com/80986.html\">marvelously wacked-out comic\u003C/a> by \u003Ca href=\"http://derbyartist.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">derbyartist\u003C/a> about 18th-century chess-playing automata shennanigans. \\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> Ooh, and \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tozocomic\u003C/a> just let me know about this \u003Ca href=\"http://www.clockwork-comics.com/\">related link\u003C/a>: \u003Ci>Clockwork Game\u003C/i> by Jane Irwin.\\r\n\\r\nGo read a beautiful \u003Ca href=\"http://davario.livejournal.com/54574.html#cutid1\">Tahitian seafaring comic\u003C/a> by \u003Ca href=\"http://davario.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">davario\u003C/a>. Lots of good stuff going up on LiveJournal today!\\r\n\\r\nAnd Scott Faulkner, \u003Ca href=\"http://inkboy.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">inkboy\u003C/a>, posted an \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIMdBK8yr_g\">intriguing video\u003C/a> showing how Emmanuel Guibert draws with water in \u003Ci>Alan's War\u003C/i>. Just as Scott says, you won't know what you're seeing at first, but wait until it all comes together. You can see \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6RLJ4PgPcY\">another video here\u003C/a> showing more of Guibert's artwork while he sings a song.","2008-10-31T08:39:00.000Z","happy-birthday-paul-gravett",[],"happy birthday, paul gravett!",1776628723795]